In early August I published this piece of news regarding a poll placed to know users' preferences on the headline subject.
Now that it's over, I'd like to share its results and some conclusions that can be made from it. Poll itself consisted of two linked questions; the first one asked what period would users like better we started with.
As it can be seen by the image above, results allow us to deduce we should start with 17th century (17 votes, against 10 for 18th century). However, the number of votes requesting a development of both periods is significant enough to make us think that, despite giving higher priority to the period having won, the second one shouldn't be put aside. Somehow, we'd better to start developing this latter shortly after having started the first period.
As for the second poll, this one asked for users' priorities among diverse seafaring nations --where several responses were allowed.
Again, results here are fairly clear, with English men-of-war flags an absolute winner with 20 votes! Other options can be grouped into three categories: those closely following the winner (14 to 12 votes), those not so prioritary but inspiring some curiosity (8 to 5 votes) and the not so favoured queue (4 votes or less).
SO WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH THIS?
First of all, poll results have been inserted into Minairons Wishlist, so as to allow eventual users to still influence scores and priorities (no matter if you already voted in the poll; what I'd like to foresee now is amount requests). Thanks to this, everyone can also request another projects not listed in the poll --just as I've done on my own by adding Emanuel Wynn pirate, Jerusalem trucial trader, Russian man-of-war or Papacy ships!
Secondly, at the time of placing the poll we had already in pipeline close to a dozen designs belonging to Iberian Peninsula nations (that aren't going to be affected by the poll results), as well as French and Ottoman sheets (whose releasing will be alternated with those best scoring in the poll; so in the next few days, pipeline will be modified with the insertion of English man-of-war sheet and will start its production process too), or even a first pirate set for trial (Thomas Tew).
WHEN ARE WE STARTING THE RANGE?
It mostly depends on our first model ship production progress (this extremely hot weather isn't helping, BTW). When we see it ready, we shall launch the first sets of naval flags, so as to have them ready for the ship release.
Q. – What about 18th century sets?
A. – I'm not forgetting them. I'm most probably going to set a similar voting process to help establish priorities among them --after the 17th century range is already running.
Best regards,
Lluís
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